Christina's LIS Rant
This is my blog on library and information science.
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Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
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- Innovating in infrastructure in a research organization
- COTS software are not off the shelf or turn-key
- Free IS and CS books online
- 4S Day Three
- 4S Day Two
- 4S Day One
- Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting Preview
- Classic post from the archive:Implications of newer models of popularization of science for science library collection development
- Classic post from the archive:The reference interview in a scientific research setting
- Classic post from the archive: On Weeding
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Christina K. Pikas
I'm a librarian at a university-affiliated research laboratory. We do mostly physical sciences and engineering. I do in-depth literature searching in collaboration with lab staff and I'm also embedded in a few teams. I also work on knowledge sharing initiatives within the lab, do collection development, and teach various how-to courses.
I'm also a doctoral student at the iSchool at the University of Maryland. I study lots of different areas in information science, but I'm primarily interested in how social computing technologies impact informal scholarly communication in science. I'm getting ready to do my comprehensive exams - so wish me luck!
I'm a member of SLA (Physics-Astronomy-Math and Chemistry Divisions; DC and Maryland Chapters) and ASIS&T.
My old blog (2004-2009) is also called Christina's LIS Rant
